I don't think you'll find very much in the way of common law rights to information as such. It kinda has to be a statute to start with -- and statutes giving property in information aren't really something that happens much, except in the areas you mention -- which were accorded to Congress to grant.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:38 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Seth Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> If it's copyright, the judge won't do that. There's no such thing as >> an "exclusive right to use" in copyright. > > Hi Seth, > > IP addresses are definitely not copyrights. Or trademarks, patents or > trade secrets. So far as I know, they're not any kind of > *intellectual* property whose existence derives from statute and, in > the U.S., from the Constitution itself. > > I suspect they're Common Law *Intangible* Property which is something > else entirely. At least they are in common law jurisdictions which > includes all of the U.S. and Canada and if I'm not mistaken everywhere > else in the ARIN region as well. > > Much of Europe operates on Roman Civil Law rather than English Common > Law. The legal foundations over there are so different I couldn't > begin to speculate how IP addresses fit. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] > Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
